Prophecy and Power : Jeremiah in Feminist and Postcolonial Perspective

Abstract

Introduction - Christl M. Maier and Carolyn J. Sharp 1. Challenges and Opportunities for Feminist and Postcolonial Biblical Criticism - Judith E. McKinlay 2. Mapping Jeremiah as/in a Feminist Landscape: Negotiating Ancient and Contemporary Terrains - Carolyn J. Sharp 3. Commentary as Memoir? Reflections on Writing/Reading War and Hegemony in Jeremiah and in Contemporary U.S. Foreign Policy - Louis Stulman 4. After the One-Man Show: Multi-authored and Multi-voiced Commentary Writing - Christl M. Maier 5. Jeremiah the Womb: On Fathers, Sons, and the Telos of Redaction in Jeremiah 1- Yosefa Raz 6. Stain of Your Guilt is Still Before Me (Jer 2:22): (Feminist) Approaches to Jeremiah 2 and the Problem of Normativity - Else K. Holt 7. Like a Woman in Labor: Gender, Postcolonial, Queer and Trauma Perspectives on the Book of Jeremiah - L. Juliana Claassens 8. God's Cruelty and Jeremiah's Treason: Jer 21:1-10 in Postcolonial Perspective - Christl M. Maier 9. Buying Land in the Text of Jeremiah: Feminist Commentary, the Kristevan Abject, and Jeremiah 32 - Carolyn J. Sharp 10. The Prophet and His Patsy: Gender Performativity in Jeremiah - Stuart Macwilliam 11. Exoticizing the Otter: The Curious Case of the Rechabites in Jeremiah 35 - Steed Vernyl Davidson 12. The Silent Goddess and the Gendering of Divine Speech in Jeremiah 44 - James E. Harding 13.A Response by Walter Brueggemann 14.A Response by Irmtraud Fischer Bibliography Author Index Scripture Index